Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s newest weekly feature, Catch-up coffee Monday. Each Monday we will bring you the best news from the previous week that you may have missed. Grab the biggest mug you’ve got, fill it with your favourite brew, and catch up with us! Dragon Quest VII and VIII…
Read MoreSquare Enix really does take risks with Dragon Quest. Whereas Final Fantasy has always been carefully controlled and curated, Dragon Quest has seen MMOs, Pokemon clones, Warriors games, a board game in collaboration with Mario, an on-rails shooter, a little digital tactics game on the DSiWare platform. And, now, Dragon…
Read MoreMost people know the story of Final Fantasy XIV by now. The original game was a bomb, but because it’s Final Fantasy and Square Enix couldn’t afford to let it die the company brought its MMO superstar, Naoki Yoshida, on to the project to completely reboot it and effectively start…
Read MoreThe Mac version of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn was launched on June 23 to coincide with the release of Heavensward, the latest expansion for the game. But in the weeks since then, there has been a steady stream of complaints regarding the game’s performance on Apple computers. Now,…
Read MoreThe first major expansion to Square Enix’s revitalised Final Fantasy XIV, Heavensward, has now landed. This expansion continues one of the most fascinating MMOs that we’ve ever seen. Originally released as Final Fantasy XIV, the game was a critical and commercial bomb, with player numbers dropping off a cliff almost…
Read MoreI think we should rename this E3 “that event where all our gaming dreams came true.” I mean, we’re quite literally talking about an event in which a new Shenmue, Final Fantasy VII Remake and The Last Guardian were announced, and these are all games no one thought would happen.…
Read MoreSquare-Enix is among the last companies to present at E3 this year, but you wouldn’t know it when the likes of Final Fantasy VII’s monolithic remake and Hitman were announced in previous shows as third party titles of interest. Find out what other surprises Square-Enix had up its sleeve with…
Read MoreAt the Sony E3 show this year, Square Enix announced two Final Fantasy games, and they could not be more different from one another. The first Final Fantasy that was announced was World of Final Fantasy, which looks like one giant, loving work of fan service for the Final Fantasy…
Read MoreLe sigh. Square Enix is a truly awesome publisher and is really getting its groove back after some really odd experiments through the later PS2/ early PS3 era. After all, in just the last two years, amongst a dozen other projects, Square Enix brought us Life is Strange and had…
Read MoreWith the recent re-release of Final Fantasy X on the PlayStation 4, I’ve had an excuse to play the game yet again. I’m not quite sure how many times I’ve actually played Final Fantasy X through since my first run on the PlayStation 2, but it’s surely more than a…
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